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+from flask import Flask
+
+# Create Flask instance
+app = Flask("__name__")
+
+
+# Default app route
+@app.route("/")
+def index():
+    # Return HTML content
+    return "<h1>This is the default page</h1>"
+
+
+# Prevent execution when imported by other script
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    # Start the flask server in debug mode for development purposes
+    app.run(port=80, debug=True)
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diff --git a/templates/.gitkeep b/templates/.gitkeep
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